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Julliard
EAN : 9782260053316
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 180
Size : 140 x 189 mm
A White Pain

Release date : 01/10/2020
In an abandoned port town, a man cut off from his past falls in love with a woman who has escaped from a psychiatric hospital. An atmospheric novel about the ebbs and flows of memory.
The narrator of this novel, a thirty-something man, has returned to France after a long time away in Brazil. In the middle of the night, while on the road leading him back to the port town of his birth, he picks up a hitchhiker: a young woman of singular beauty... The narrator of this novel, a thirty-something man, has returned to France after a long time away in Brazil. In the middle of the night, while on the road leading him back to the port town of his birth, he picks up a hitchhiker: a young woman of singular beauty and disjointed speech. They part ways when they reach the town. There, the narrator discovers that his mother has been stricken with an incurable disease. He catches back up with Karmel, the hitchhiker, as she is wandering around the port, now almost abandoned and entirely different from that which he knew growing up. His father, a fisherman, spent much of his time there before he disappeared at sea—when his son was still just a child. Between Karmel and the narrator, love will take unexpected detours. As always with Jean-Luc Marty, fiction is a pretext to describe “elsewhere” in all its forms: the strangeness that the narrator feels inside himself; his mother’s illness, made of silences, then of a life that will tell its story; the elsewhere of Brazil, where the narrator was reborn through the act of fishing; and the elsewhere of Karmel, who picks up driftwood from the beaches and collects it in a WWII German bunker in order to create a work of art. But the core issue of White Pain is really the inescapable elsewhere that each one of us must face on the last day of our lives.
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EAN : 9782260053316
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 180
Size : 140 x 189 mm
Julliard